Crime Roundup: Women charged after fatal stabbing in Cork

Our Crime Roundup looks at an arrest following a fatal stabbing in Cork, and Gardaí appeal for information following a serious assault in Co Monaghan.

Co Monaghan
Gardaí are investigating a serious assault on a 42-year-old man at a house in Oram, Co Monaghan overnight on 06/07 October.

A man in his 20s was arrested in connection with the assault.

Anyone with information is asked to contact gardaí in Castleblaney on 042-9747900.

Garda lamp (Pic: Inside Ireland.ie)

Fatal Stabbing, Macroom

A woman was arrested on Monday 08 October by gardaí investigating a fatal stabbing of a 44-year-old-man at a house on Dan Corkery Place, Macroom, Co Cork earlier that morning.

Gardaí said they were called to the house around 01.50 and discovered the man, named locally as Timmy Foley, found dead with suspected stab wounds.

According to Gardaí, a man and a women, both in their 40s, were also present in the house and were taken to Cork University Hospital and Cork Mercy Hospital with injuries described as ‘non life threatening’.

It is believed that there had been an altercation in the house.

A 46-year-old woman was charged with the murder of Timmy Foley on 10 October and was remanded in custody for a week.

Revenue seizes tobacco products and cash in Donegal and Galway

Revenue officers said they seized over 24,000 cigarettes and €7,200 cash in separate operations in Donegal and Galway on 05 October.

During the search of a residential property in Letterkenny, Co Donegal, Revenue said their officers seized 13,400 cigarettes, branded ‘Mayfair’, ‘L&M’ and ‘Pacific’, and also €7,200 in cash.

Revenue said ‘the combined estimated retail value of the contraband tobacco products is €16,000, representing a potential loss to the Exchequer of €12,680’.

Investigations are ongoing with a view to prosecution.

Co Antrim

The NI Fire and Rescue Service were called out to a village near Ballymoney, Co Antrim following reports of three properties on fire on Sunday 07 October. It is understood the NIFRS dispatched four appliances and that the PSNI and NI Ambulance Service were also in attendance. NIFRS confirmed that ‘three cars were deliberately set on fire’ but that there were no casualties. Investigations are ongoing.

Drugs and firearm Seizure, Cork

Gardaí investigating the sale and supply of controlled drugs in the Cork area seized a firearm and €60,000 of the synthetic drug MDMA after they stopped and searched a car at Fota, Cork on 06 October.

A man in his late 20s was arrested at the scene.

Woman banned for life from keeping animals after ISPCA found deceased dog on Laois property

In Portlaoise District Court on Friday o5 October 2018, a Laois woman was banned from keeping pets for life under the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 after an ISPCA Inspector found one deceased dog and one injured dog on her property.

The court was told that ISPCA Inspector Karen Lyons visited the woman’s Portlaoise property accompanied by two Gardaí in December 2017.

Behind a shed Inspector Lyons discovered the carcass of a black and white terrier-type dog. From the strong smell she believed it must have been deceased for some time, and would have exposed the second dog to toxins.

The owner was convicted for two offences under the relevant Act, which included causing unnecessary suffering and failing to protect the health and welfare of a dog. Additionally, she was convicted for not having a dog licence and having an unburied carcass of a dog on the property.

The judge imposed a three-month prison sentence, suspended for one year on a €100 bond. The judge also barred the woman from keeping animals for life under Section 58 of AHWA.

The dog, later named Nicky is now enjoying life with a new family in Co Wicklow.

Fatal Shooting, Ballymun

Gardaí investigating the fatal shooting of Robbie Sheridan on Dublin’s northside on Friday 05 October are appealing to the public for information. Gardaí believe that around 11:15pm, the 45-year-old was confronted and shot a number of times by two armed men when he answered a call to the door of his home on Poppintree Crescent, Ballymun.

It’s understood the two men fled the scene on foot in the direction of nearby Poppintree Park.

Reports suggest that Mr Sheridan was known to gardaí.

Superintendent Brain Daly said:

” We are appealing to anyone who was in the area [on Friday] between 10pm and 12 midnight to contact us here at the incident room at Ballymun Garda Station.”

Anyone with information is asked to contact Ballymun Garda Station 01- 6664400 or the Garda Confidential Line 1800 666 111.

Derry

Via PSNI

A man in his 50s was shot in both legs following an attack in the Brandywell area of Derry on Friday 05 October. The PSNI said the shooting was being treated as a’ paramilitary-style assault’ and the man’s injuries could prove life-changing.

The PSNI has called for anyone with any information on the shootings to call 101 quoting reference number 1286 of 5/10/18 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 11.

Co Down

Three men were arrested on suspicion of false imprisonment, burglary, grievous bodily harm with intent and threats to kill after an incident in Co Down on 06 October. It is understood a man was taken from a house in Castleview, Gilford and was into a car which was later stopped by police.

Revenue discover two separate oil laundering plants in Co Louth

Revenue said they discovered two oil laundering plants on Friday 05 October following a joint operation involving Louth County Council and An Garda Síochána targeting suspected illegal dumping, under Waste Management Acts.

Revenue said it was alerted to a possible illicit oil operation in Louth and that its officers searched a commercial premises at Millpark, Knockbridge, under warrant, and discovered and dismantled two separate oil laundering operations.

Approximately 5,000 litres of illicet fuel, a lorry, an adapted refrigerated trailer, a van containing barrels of deisel sludge, bleaching agent and various tanks and pumping equipment were seized.

Drugs Seizure and Arrest Co Tipperary

Gardaí said they seized Heroin with an estimated value of €90k (analysis pending) and arrested one man during a planned operation targeting the sale and supply of drugs in south Tipperary and Kilkenny on 05 October.

The drugs were discovered by Gardaí when they intercepted and stopped a car travelling on the M9 motorway near Knocktopher.

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